tenement, garden, and appurtenances, died seized, and that the said Agnes survived them and occupied the tenement; and also that the said Agnes, having been born in Wales, was unable to acquire and hold any lands or tenements within the kingdom of England by divers statutes; by reason whereof the said Sir Roland entered into the said third part of the said tenement, garden, and appurtenances, and held and occupied it during all the term of his life, and thereof died seized; after whose death the said third part of the said tenement, garden, and appurtenances ought to remain to the said late Duke of Norfolk and George (Neville), as the cousins and heirs of the said Edmund (Lenthall); and that the said third part of the said tenement, garden, and appurtenances was worth 13s. 4d. yearly above reprises, and was not held of the King, but of whom, or by what tenure, the jury were not informed; and they further found that the said Roland died on Sunday next after the Feast of St. Katharine the Virgin then last past; and that Roland Lenthall esquire was the son and next heir of the said Sir Roland, and was of the age of twenty-five years and more.[1]
The house and garden demised to Tasburgh and others were, I think, the building described by Mr. Gage Rokewode, and the garden adjoining, which was afterwards converted into a churchyard; and I believe that the following documents, from a Register of Deeds belonging to the parish of St. Olave, relate to the same premises, under the name of the Gatehouse and Tasburgh's tenement:—
12 Septr., 48th Edward III. By deed poll of this date, Walter de Frylands, clerk, granted to Peter Attewood, Doms Henry de Lewes, Doms Richard Hartwell, and Doms William West, clerks, a messuage and garden, with the appurtenances, situated in the borough of Southwark, to hold to them, their heirs and assigns, for ever.
50th Edward III. By deed of this date, William West granted, released, and quit-claimed to Richard Hertwell, rector of the church of West Horsle, and his heirs, all his right and claim to a tenement and appurtenances in Southwark, which Walter Frelands had granted to him the said William West and others.
12 Septr., 50th Edward III. (penes me.[2]) By indenture of this date, Henry de Lewes and Richard de Hertwell, rector of the church of West Horslegh, clerks, gave, granted, and confirmed to John Bryd and Isabella his wife all that house called the Gatehouse, which they lately held and inhabited, beyond the gate of their (the grantors') messuage, in the parish of St. Olave of Southwark, which the grantors lately held of the gift and feoffment of Doms Walter Frilond, to have and
